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Tumblelogs, as the Tumblr Inc. people say, are "online scrapbooks." Keeping one is great for those who always have a lot to share (links/photos/music/video/conversations/any form of observation) but do not always feel they need to have an explanation (or much explanation that it requires a lengthy post) to what they have found/thought of. This can actually be useful to the amnesiacs, the crammers, the OC ones, the lazy ones, the bums. It's like Stumbleupon, Twitter, and LJ all rolled into one.
Here's what I've been discovering from some Tumblelogs lately:
1. Iceland: Happiness is Failure
Failure Magazine on Weiner and Iceland:
One of the subjects Weiner interviews, Larus Johannesson, explains it as follows: “Failure doesn’t carry a stigma in Iceland. In fact, in a way we admire failures.”
Of course, this isn’t an entirely good thing, at least as far as artistic endeavors are concerned. “There’s no one on the island telling them they’re not good enough, so they just go ahead and sing and paint and write,” begins Weiner. “One result of this freewheeling attitude is that Icelandic artists produce a lot of crap.”
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MUST GO TO ICELAND - now already included in my bucket list!
2. Writer
Makes me feel like I'm Nancy Drew on a secret mission when I'm typing there!
3.
Avoiding the Quadrillion Probabilities of Our Non-existence
by Joe Pintauro
i am not who i was
i am not going to be who i was going to be
you changed all that
you are not who you were
you are not going to be who you were going to be
i changed all that
what is, is. and cannot not be.
what was, was. and cannot not have been.
so you see
my love
we are us.
we are us now and we shall never have been
not us.
who are we going to be?
we are going to be who we never would have been
without each other.
Here's what I've been discovering from some Tumblelogs lately:
1. Iceland: Happiness is Failure
Failure Magazine on Weiner and Iceland:
One of the subjects Weiner interviews, Larus Johannesson, explains it as follows: “Failure doesn’t carry a stigma in Iceland. In fact, in a way we admire failures.”
Of course, this isn’t an entirely good thing, at least as far as artistic endeavors are concerned. “There’s no one on the island telling them they’re not good enough, so they just go ahead and sing and paint and write,” begins Weiner. “One result of this freewheeling attitude is that Icelandic artists produce a lot of crap.”
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MUST GO TO ICELAND - now already included in my bucket list!
2. Writer
Makes me feel like I'm Nancy Drew on a secret mission when I'm typing there!
3.
Avoiding the Quadrillion Probabilities of Our Non-existence
by Joe Pintauro
i am not who i was
i am not going to be who i was going to be
you changed all that
you are not who you were
you are not going to be who you were going to be
i changed all that
what is, is. and cannot not be.
what was, was. and cannot not have been.
so you see
my love
we are us.
we are us now and we shall never have been
not us.
who are we going to be?
we are going to be who we never would have been
without each other.